The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.